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Somebody told me about a month
ago that when Wilhelm Reich

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presented his book, entitled
"The Function of the Orgasm,"

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to Freud, Sigmund replied
with two words, "So thick?"

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That's the best thing I
ever heard about Freud.

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So this is the poem called
"Coming" in their honor.

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I mean, I hope more in
Freud's honor than in Reich's.

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The ridiculousness of
the act seen from above

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will not be lost upon you.

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I was telling people in the
class the other day that just

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after this book came out, after
this new unselected came out,

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at the very party at which
people were supposed to be

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telling me how wonderful I was,
somebody came up to me and said,

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you know, in that poem "Coming,"
you got your nuts and bolts

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backwards.

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The book had just
come out, there's

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nothing I can do about it
but go all around the country

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crossing out the line with the
nuts and bolts in it somehow.

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And I was telling them in
the class the other day,

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I am the one who fixes
the toilet in my house.

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I know which one has wings,
but somehow it got past me,

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and it got past the copy
editor, and there it

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was forever inscribed,
and sold as truth.

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Fortunately, there's
been a revision,

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and I'm buying up all the old
versions of the book which

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are the ones with this picture
on the back, which I hope

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none of you have copies
of, because they've

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taken that picture off,
they didn't like it either.

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But at least in the new
one it got fixed plumbing.

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"Coming is the body's way of
weeping after a series of shocks

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is suffered, after the thrust
of things, the gist of things,

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becomes apparent.

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The bolt is felt completely
swollen in vicinity to wrench,

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this skid is clearly headed
toward an all-out insult,

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and the senses, one by one,
abandoning their stations

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into smaller hours,
and thinner minutes,

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seconds split till POW
you had it, had it coming.

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And it heaved, whose participle
wasn't heaven, that was that.

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And when you got some senses
back, you asked yourself,

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is this a dignified
being's way of being born?

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What a thought somebody
had, or some nobody, out

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of the breathless blue,
making us double up like this,

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half gifted and half robbed.

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'Rise up to me,'
the spirit laughed.

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'I'm coming, I'm coming,
the body sobbed.'"

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